Blender Tutorials - anyone got any good ones?

[Tim Batchelor]

I have come to the inevitable conclusion that I need to change the 3d modeller that I use (Truespace4) and having a limited budget for software ( i.e. free) it looks like Blender is the obvious option. So far I have found the following Tutorials sources for Blender:

Blender.org Tutorials

BioRUST.com Blender 3d Tutorials

Please post any additional sources of blender tutorials here and feel free to recommend specific blender tutorials on specific topics. As a newbie to blender I am particularly interested to know how to do many of the things Truespace is capable of in Blender, particularly things like Boolean operations on objects ( merging and subtracting indexFaceSet Objects).

LoanWolffe

[fabricator]

I don't know of any tutorials myself, but I'll post anything I come across anyway.

BS Exporter for blender [free]

Here have a blender model archive I just found.
http://www.katorlegaz.com/3d_models/index.php

[Tito]

Here's a few that I found:
Blender 3D: Noob to Pro Tutorial Book
More Video Tutorials
Blender Nation Tutorials

[Rick Kimball]

I'm guessing you are interested in the game engine? Good stuff on this page:

http://www.tutorialsforblender3d.com/index.html

[Rick Kimball]

I'm guessing that anything you can do in Truespace you can do in blender. Here are some text/videos tutorials:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb1eGoaXLNw&feature=related.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8U0TJUJxrE
http://www.blenderbasics.com/

[Bruce Lehmann]

Are you aware, Tim, that Truespace 7.6 is available for free? Not to put down Blender but it might be an option to use a program you already know :-) Just go to the Calagari site and creat an account and it plus a pile of tutorial videos are free.

[Tim Batchelor]

Bruce Lehmann said:

Are you aware, Tim, that Truespace 7.6 is available for free? Not to put down Blender but it might be an option to use a program you already know :-) Just go to the Calagari site and creat an account and it plus a pile of tutorial videos are free.

Hey Bruce,
I was using Truespace4 because I was told (by Calagari) that support for VRML output was being discontinued in later versions, as it was in 4 the VRML output was limited and many tweeks were necessary to obtain usable output, I was not then prepared to pay for an updated product that did not support VRML'97 output.

I don't know what the VRML/X3d output capabilities are for 7.6 but it appears the product is nolonger being developed.

[Bruce Lehmann]

Tim Batchelor said:

Bruce Lehmann said:

Are you aware, Tim, that Truespace 7.6 is available for free? Not to put down Blender but it might be an option to use a program you already know :-) Just go to the Calagari site and creat an account and it plus a pile of tutorial videos are free.

Hey Bruce,
I was using Truespace4 because I was told (by Calagari) that support for VRML output was being discontinued in later versions, as it was in 4 the VRML output was limited and many tweeks were necessary to obtain usable output, I was not then prepared to pay for an updated product that did not support VRML'97 output.

I don't know what the VRML/X3d output capabilities are for 7.6 but it appears the product is nolonger being developed.

I believe that Microsoft aquired it, so I don't know what the future is for it. I do know however, that the site is still ongoing and active and it has alot of export features:
"• Direct export to Virtual Earth (workspace)
• Improved X format (workspace)
• BVH animation and motion capture
• 3D formats: SCN, COB, CAN, WRL 1.0 & 2.0, DXF, ASC, 3DS, STL
• 2D formats: • BMP, TGA, AVI, JPG, TIFF, PNG, PSD "
It does not, however export to X3D, unless someine has written a plug-in I am not aware of.

You are right about it's VRML output though, takes alot of tweaking afterwards. :-)

[tutancamon]

Tim Batchelor said:

I don't know what the VRML/X3d output capabilities are for 7.6 but it appears the product is nolonger being developed.

trueSpace7.6 has capability to import/export VRML/VRML2. You can download True Space version 6.7 using this link: cart1.caligari.com
Anyway, True Space and Blender are hard editors, unhandly to be used ...
I wish You succes for using them, work well and good inspirations.

And talking about Blender, probably ppls known that Rick Cambel has a good exporter to VRML2.

Also, I want to say here that 3DMax, can be used with big succes in trial mode.

Enjoy
:)